If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smoo...th,--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter- friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When in the enfranchisement of the black men [women] saw another ignorant class of voters placed about their heads, and beheld the... danger of a distinctively "male" government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman's voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country.It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and died, but to establish the principle that such taxation was unjust. It is the same with this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the struggle from love of principle would still work on until the establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

As soon as you begin to say "We have always done things this way--perhaps that might be a better way," conscious law-making is beg...inning. As soon as you begin to say "We do things this way--they do things that way--what is to be done about it?" men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I'm a Sunday School teacher, and I've always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love... the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself--a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don't permit us to achieve perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is odd that the NCAA would place a school on probation for driving an athlete to class, or providing a loan, but would have no ...penalty for a school that violates Title IX, a federal law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's t...he eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Feminist legal theory ... challenges the traditional notion that law is a neutral, objective, rational set of rules.... Certain gr...oups have historically been unrepresented (or underrepresented) in law and ... [this] has led to biases.... [Such] excluded groups have different, perhaps unique, views and experiences that are relevant to the issues and circumstances regulated and controlled by law.... What is law?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »